On Feb 17, 2008 11:17 AM, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:06:10 -0500, David Chelimsky wrote: > > > On Feb 17, 2008 1:08 AM, Steve > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm not sure of what the community stance is on this, but is there a > >> builtin way to include helpers in view specs? Is this practice shunned? > >> My thoughts on the matter are that I expect my views to have a specific > >> output, and sometimes it would be much easier to call the helper > >> function in the view spec, so that that output could be expected. My > >> helper functions all have their own specs, so it would seem that I'm > >> not doing anything magical, just making the specs a little simpler. > > > > http://rspec.info/rdoc-rails/classes/Spec/Rails/Example/ > ViewExampleGroup.html#M000037 > > > > I think that's showing a way of maybe overriding existing helpers in the > view? What I'm asking is more like this: > > http://pastie.caboo.se/153392 > > In the example I actually have "include ApplicationHelper" in there, and > am using a method "row_class_for_idx" in the spec. It works. I'm just > wondering if that's bad form or not.
You may want to give this a read: http://blog.jayfields.com/2008/02/testing-expect-literals.html. Please do write back here if you do and let us know what you think. Cheers, David > > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
